Thirty years after Allan Bloom's classic "the closing of the American mind": The liberal arts and the question of what it means to be college educated

Authors

Robert W. Hill, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

The Journal for the Liberal Arts and Sciences

ISSN

2167-3756

Publication Date

Spring 7-24-2018

Abstract

The author, a university professor for many years, ponders the important question of what academic Allan Bloom would make of recent developments in higher education such as the disappearance of many liberal arts colleges by either closings or changing the academic mission to add graduate or professional degree programs.

Volume

22

Issue

2

NSUWorks Citation

Hill, Robert W., "Thirty years after Allan Bloom's classic "the closing of the American mind": The liberal arts and the question of what it means to be college educated" (2018). Faculty Articles. 261.
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/fse_facarticles/261